The King's Own
                                            
                            By Frederick Marryat
                            
                                9 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: Peters, from that moment, was a desperate man. A short time after he had undergone his sentence, the news of the mutiny at Spithead was communicated; and the vacillation and apprehensions of the Admiralty, and of the nation at large, w
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                                                Brief Extract: Peters, from that moment, was a desperate man. A short time after he had undergone his sentence, the news of the mutiny at Spithead was communicated; and the vacillation and apprehensions of the Admiralty, and of the nation at large, were not to be concealed. This mutiny was apparently quelled by conciliation, but conciliation is but a half measure, and ineffectual when offered from superiors to inferiors. Less